Bruce Perens looks a bit disoriented as he comes into the hotel lobby, looking for me. "Anyone here called Sam?" he calls out. The tiredness is evident on his face after the long haul from the US to Australia.

Edward Naughton is at it again. The lawyer from Brown Rudnick has for the third time alleged that Google is violating the terms of the GPLv2 under which the Linux kernel is distributed.

One of the truly great programmers of the last century and a man who maintained that simplicity was the best way to tackle the task has died.

If one were to go by the reaction to the news that Steve Jobs would no longer be the chief executive of Apple Computer, the man is Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama and Henry Ford all rolled into one.

Linus Torvalds didn't use words half as lyrical as those of the immortal Beatles when he first announced the arrival of Linux 20 years ago (for those who don't know, the headline for this article is taken from the famous album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by the band in 1967).

In March this year, a lawyer working for the firm Brown Rudnick wrote a speculative article, claiming that Google may be violating the GNU General Public Licence in its Android operating system.

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a man who is generally very definite in his views and speech. And when he dislikes something, when something gives him the shudders and the shakes, boy do you get to know about it!

When one thinks of Microsoft, the name that automatically comes to mind is Bill Gates. Not too many people know that Gates was the lesser of two co-founders, Paul Allen being the other.

The Linux kernel will soon be released under the BSD licence, kernel creator Linus Benedict Torvalds said today.

Most years, Linus Torvalds comes to Australia. He apparently likes the place, so the creator of the Linux kernel makes his way to the Australian national Linux conference in January.